15 million Canadians’ sensitive personal information was exposed in LifeLabs data breach and the company is now facing a civil lawsuit seeking $1.14 billion dollars in damages.
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Scott Ikeda is a technology futurist and writer for more than 15 years. He travels extensively throughout Asia and writes about the impact of technology on the communities he visits. Over the last 5 years, Scott has grown increasingly focused on the future landscape of big data, surveillance, cybersecurity and the right to privacy.
A location tracking cloud vulnerability was found on hundreds of smartwatch brands using Thinkrace platform which allows third parties to access the devices without any particular hacking skills.
A warning has been issued for an expected state-sponsored cyber attack on Tokyo 2020 Games after uncovering some phishing emails made up to look as if they are coming from Olympic staff.
After one year of reviewing data collection practices on smartphone apps, the Chinese government imposed new regulations on 41 apps that were found to be out of compliance.
Facebook thinks CCPA does not apply to them as businesses can install their web tracking system Pixel for free and pay only to deliver targeted ads based on the information they harvest.
A major password breach which was first reported this September has just been confirmed by Zynga. It appears that the 170 million affected users were not notified when the original breach news broke.
NIST face recognition study found that law enforcement systems have trouble accurately identifying faces of Native American, African American, women and people at extreme ends of the age spectrum.
Despite similarity to the EU GDPR, proposed India data protection bill would allow the government unfettered access to citizen data for "national security" purposes.
In spite of many, many public warnings, users of Windows and Microsoft's various cloud-based services appear to still be committing the cyber sin of password reuse.
A recently discovered trojan, PDFReader, exploits Facebook Ads Manager by using a legitimate-looking digital security certificate to access and grab cookies from victim’s Facebook session.
